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Sinners, pray to a merciful God for forgiveness.

Man got into difficulty when he lifted his will against God’s. He gets out of trouble when he bows t...

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The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

Sinners, pray to a merciful God for forgiveness.

Man got into difficulty when he lifted his will against God’s. He gets out of trouble when he bows t...

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The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

Sinners, pray to a merciful God for forgiveness.

Man got into difficulty when he lifted his will against God’s. He gets out of trouble when he bows t...

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The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

Sinners, pray to a merciful God for forgiveness.

Man got into difficulty when he lifted his will against God’s. He gets out of trouble when he bows t...

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The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

Sinners, pray to a merciful God for forgiveness.

Man got into difficulty when he lifted his will against God’s. He gets out of trouble when he bows t...

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The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

Sinners, pray to a merciful God for forgiveness.

Man got into difficulty when he lifted his will against God’s. He gets out of trouble when he bows t...

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The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

Sinners, pray to a merciful God for forgiveness.

Man got into difficulty when he lifted his will against God’s. He gets out of trouble when he bows t...

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Divine punishment are also mercies.

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C. S. LewisSurprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

Sinners, pray to a merciful God for forgiveness.

Man got into difficulty when he lifted his will against God’s. He gets out of trouble when he bows t...

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For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives u...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

Justice shall be mixed with mercy. You shall not always be an Ass.

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C. S. LewisThe Horse and His Boy

Then I fell at his feet and thought, Surely this is the hour of death, for the Lion (who is worthy o...

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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live...

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GOD HAS NOT MERCY AND NOR WILL I' - The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, 4) by Cassandra Clare an...

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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; ther...

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The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with ...

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A sentence which might bear in mind that our great struggle is that of fear, and that if a man has k...

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I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or ...

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May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner.

My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the...

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I am sure of God's hand and guidance... You must never doubt that I am thankful and glad to go the w...

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Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.' These men without possessions or power, thes...

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Dietrich BonhoefferThe Cost of Discipleship

Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal...

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But Jesus, our Advocate, presents an effectual plea in behalf of all who by repentance and faith hav...

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The fatal effects of sin can be removed only by the provision that God has made. The Israelites save...

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Ellen G. WhitePatriarchs And Prophets

It was no time for mercy, it was time to terminate with extreme prejudice.

Mercy is a source of life because we breathe our own spirits through it into the lives of others.

I know that the Kaiser incarnates all there is of brute force and of murder. And yet I would not, if...

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I’ve always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I ...

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Evelyn WaughBrideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

...if He made us, He must know He is to blame when He has made us weak or evil. And He must understa...

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The great strength she had used in the old days to conquer and subdue, to win her will and to defend...

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You do not beg the sun for mercy.-Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary

[The] self overcoming of justice: one knows the beautiful name it has given itself--mercy...

There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Hi...

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This heart still believes that love and mercy still exist.

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Garth BrooksGarth Brooks -- Fresh Horses: Authentic Guitar Tab [With Full-Color Pull-Out Poster]

The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great vir...

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Gordon B. HinckleyStanding for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

You can’t conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness of the mercy of God.

You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

...Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies.

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Henry BestonThe Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust. Let us be merciful as well as just.

Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark

It is bad enough to be unconverted and going to hell. It is even worse to say, “I know it and will n...

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Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can yo...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!'Pity? It was Pity that...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do no be...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings

I know you love me. The question is, how much?

Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let...

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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of...

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God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escape...

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Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.

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John CalvinInstitutes of the Christian Religion

And now without redemption all mankindMust have been lost, adjudged to death and hellBy doom severe,...

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John MiltonParadise Lost and Other Poems

No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch...

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Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.

The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

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Joseph CampbellThe Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] ...

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His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed cer...

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Kiran DesaiThe Inheritance of Loss

When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, beco...

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Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody.""You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodde...

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I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

Yet each flower, each twig, each pebble, shines as though illuminated from within, as once before, o...

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The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies.

If we have, through grace, an interest in Him who is the Fountain, we may rejoice in him when the st...

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Matthew HenryMatthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have rest...

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Among the attributes of God although they are all equal mercy shines with even more brilliancy tha...

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Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successivel...

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What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world?'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps...

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I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate t...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

In the violent scorn of her revolted pride, of her indignant honor, had she forgotten a lowlier yet ...

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Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.

But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a ...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

There was nothing for it now but to throw himself on Campos's mercy, and it had been Mr. Rebeck's ex...

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The light of love proper to faith can illumine the question of our own time-concerning truth. Truth,...

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We cannot become starched Christians, those overeducated Christians who speak of theological matters...

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For the Church, the option for the poor is primarily a theological category rather than a cultural, ...

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Mary was able to turn a stable into a home for Jesus, with poor swaddling clothes and an abundance o...

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Will we let ourselves become a Church that calls and welcomes sinners with open arms, that gives cou...

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There is a Marian "style" to the Church's work of evangelization. Whenever we look to Mary, we come ...

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As religious leaders, we are called to be true "people of dialogue," to cooperate in building peace ...

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We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us.

Mercy will always be greater than any sin, no one can put a limit on the love of the all-forgiving G...

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